ADS-L Digest - 27 Feb 2009 to 28 Feb 2009 (#2009-60)

[Ann Burlingham]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Your Name <ROSESKES at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 3/1/2009 12:01:34 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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> I hope I  will be forgiven exploiting the general knowledgeability of people
> on this  list with a query that has virtually no relevance to linguistics.  I
> recently read that the lyrics of Leonard Cohen's 1967 song "Suzanne" appeared
>  earlier as a poem in a 1966 book of his.  Are there other examples of
> well-known song lyrics that appeared earlier as poems?  I am not talking  about
> well-known poems that were also made into songs, but rather about texts  that are
> usually thought of as songs but were actually first  poems.

"Morning has broken" by Eleanor Farjeon became a song by Cat Stevens.

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